Legacies of Art and Activism: Black Feminist Resistance, Transformation, and Collective Care in the Caribbean

This thesis explores the central role of art, storytelling, and community organizing in Caribbean Black feminist activism, tracing intergenerational continuities from the 1980s to the present. Using a Critical Black Feminist Analysis, it brings the Sistren Theatre Collective’s magazine archive into dialogue with interviews from eight contemporary activists across the Anglophone Caribbean. It argues that art and storytelling have long been radical tools to resist colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and racial injustice. Analyzing two issues of Sistren magazine (1986, 1988), the study highlights how theatre, comics, and poetry critiqued labor exploitation and gender violence. Contemporary activists extend these strategies through digital platforms and community-based care. This work contributes to Caribbean and Black Feminist Thought by centering cultural practices as feminist epistemologies of resistance, care, and transformation

What I See in My World

Artist: Rithvik Vignesh Age: 5 Notes: 2025-169w / US-

Intelligent Intent-based Network Slicing for IoT Systems: A Framework for Traffic Modeling, Autonomous Resource Management, and Privacy-Preserving Orchestration

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced a multitude of services into our daily routines, encompassing smart cities, eHealth, and smart homes. These services exhibit varying Quality of Service (QoS) and functional requirements, posing distinctive challenges for contemporary Management and Orchestration (MO) systems. Envisioned MO systems are characterized by intelligence, abstract user interactions, and autonomous adaptability with cost optimization. This thesis aims to advance the development of efficient MO systems tailored for IoT networks. At the core of this research is the introduction of a pioneering mathematical framework, the Tiered Markov Modulated Stochastic Process (TMMSP), that comprehends application-specific characteristics of IoT traffic and enables the generation of realistic IoT traffic data. The TMMSP framework serves as a linchpin in the research, enabling comprehensive simulations and evaluations of network performance. Furthermore, the thesis presents an Intelligent and Autonomous Edge Slicing (IAES) system, a novel approach designed to recognize diverse IoT environments and implement per-slice resource allocation policies. The IAES enables intelligent automation within edge systems by policy optimization that enhances resource efficiency while accommodating the diverse needs of IoT services. The IAES leverages the TMMSP framework for generating IoT data for the IAES system’s evaluation. Lastly, the thesis proposes the Harmony Slice Master (H-SliceMaster), a privacy-preserving Intelligent Intent-Based Network Slicing (I-IBNS) framework that enables end-to-end MO while preserving data privacy and control autonomy in multi-administrator and multi-tenant environments. The H-SliceMaster comprises several integral components: the knowledge management framework, intent propagation framework, Promise and Price Network Operation (PPNO) principle, and Soft Network Control (SNC) approach. These components provide a foundation for dynamic MO of end-to-end IoT system, meeting services' unique quality and functional demands in a cost-effective manner while preserving the privacy of system domains

How Do Novice Programmers Interact with ChatGPT while Solving Code -Tracing Problems?

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are generative AI tools that can answer questions and provide solutions to problems in various domains. To date, little is known about how students interact with LLM tools while problem solving. We recruited novice programmers (N = 21) and gave them a brief video-based lesson on the fundamentals. We then asked them to use ChatGPT version 4.0 (1) to learn about one additional construct, namely, for loops, and (2) to solve four problems that required specifying the output of a program with a for loop, with access to ChatGPT. Participants verbalized their thoughts as they worked, and these were transcribed and analyzed. We used a qualitative approach to identify how students reasoned and what strategies they employed while solving problems. We found substantially more independent problem solving than expected, given prior reports on students’ overreliance on LLMs

Making B Movies and an Uncertain Ethnographic Subject: Encountering Madness and Multimodality along the Quest for the Musicality of Reality

My project explores collaborative speculative fiction filmmaking with one person, D, in the gentrifying neighbourhood of Parkdale in west downtown Toronto. Our work together focused primarily on helping D share his singular philosophical and cosmological ideas around his concept of the “Musicality of Reality.” I was not a filmmaker and had no intention to make films but this is what the ethnography called for and D and I figured it out along the way. We came to define our filmic practice as the “ethnographic B movie” that celebrates low expectations, lack of professionalism and encourages playful absurdity for the sake of generating the conditions of imaginative expression. While originally interested in the intersection of place and precarity amidst urban change, my focus shifted when I met D and became implicated in his revolutionary world, seeking to understand his singularity and ideas as we manifested that world on film. D lives on and thinks from the margins, always reminded of his personal and academic failures. Yet despite his social position he strives to generate knowledge, gain recognition and grow his revolutionary movement. Though he acknowledges his approach keeps him and his thinking on the periphery, he refuses to compromise the integrity and spirit of his vision. By centering D’s thinking and creativity not his biography and social situation, my dissertation becomes an experimental site to explore the entanglements of fieldwork relationality and the politics of representation. As an experiment, I play with a variety of tensions in mine and the readers’ encounter with D including between film and text, fieldwork and writing and disclosure and silence. These tensions invite critical reflection upon how I render D as a certain kind of ethnographic subject between his own self-representation and the interpretive demands of communicating the value, context and meaning of student anthropology

Lost Darkness

Artist: Julia Laimer Age: 11 Notes: 2025-8 / AT-

All the Secrets

Artist: Alwin, Assar, Ville Age: 9 Notes: 2025-150 / SE-

Local Topography

Artist: Demi van Middelkoop Age: 7 Notes: 2025-118 / NL-

Save the Earth

Artist: Isak E. Baaroy Age: 12 Notes: 2025-123 / NO-

Learning Map

Artist: Fatima Al Dhahari Age: 14 Notes: 2025-145 / SA-